Why had he brought his cheap regard and his lip-born words to her who had nothing paltry to give in exchange?
She'll never again think me anything but a paltry pretence—too nice to take heaven except upon flattering conditions, and yet selling myself for any devil's change by the sly.
"There's not a more paltry fellow in Middlemarch than Bowyer," said Ladislaw, indignantly, "but it seems as if the paltry fellows were always to turn the scale.
My gracious, how paltry!
Thoughtless of money or the accumulation of material possessions, he is none the less defeated in the end by his own greed a greed that makes the avarice of King Midas seem paltry by comparison.
Thoughtless of money or the accumulation of material possessions, he is none the less defeated in the end by his own greed agreed that makes the avarice of King Midas seem paltry by comparison.
Collectively, America's globetrotters parted with a relatively paltry $123.
Collectively, America's globetrotters parted with a relatively paltry $123.
Start investing You may consider your first salary too paltry or yourself too young to actually consider investing.
Yet that is a paltry sum compared to the money flowing into traditional energy production.
At the other end of the spectrum, meanwhile, Mexicans get a paltry 13 days off.
Not over one little paltry optimist's success.
The 82-year-old award-winning film actress Wang Xiaotang, who has enjoyed a career in the limelight for more than 50 years, questioned the millions of dollars earned by today's generation of actors and actresses just for a single film or television series, and compared their salaries to the National Science and Technology Awards, the top prize given to Chinese scientists, which pays out a comparatively paltry sum of 5 million yuan (749,547 US dollars).
DiCaprio is the highest-earning male acting nominee at this year's Oscars, but still earns far less than Lawrence's $52 milllion, pocketing a paltry $29 million in 2014-15.
This is the primary reason that a paltry 5% of businesses break the $1 million revenue mark and only about one in eight of those reach $10 million, according to recent data.
Made with a paltry budget of 1.
Only a small portion of my brain do I employ; only a paltry amount of my muscles do I flex.
South Koreans, on average, are given 15 days and take a paltry six to themselves.
CEO Girls today are raised to believe they can be and do anything in life, but only a paltry number end up becoming CEOs of major corporations.
At the moment, Google's are paltry for a $487bn company, with barely any breakdown between lines of business.
